Don’t extend cost-assignment forbearance to incumbent carriers Em...
Don’t extend cost-assignment forbearance to incumbent carriers Embarq, Frontier and Windstream, competitive local exchange carriers urged the FCC. Earlier this year, the FCC granted AT&T, Verizon and Qwest forbearance from the rules, which among other things require carriers to…
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separate intrastate and interstate costs. Tuesday, CompTel, One Communications and TW Telecom opposed the mid-sized incumbents’ request for similar relief. The FCC “should not exacerbate its error in granting cost assignment forbearance to AT&T, Verizon and Qwest,” the CLECs said. If the FCC does extend relief, however, it should condition forbearance on the elimination of Universal Service Fund subsides that the requesting incumbents and Bells receive, they said. Also, the commission should give the carriers “more detailed” instructions on how to develop a compliance plan showing how they will give the agency usable accounting data at the agency’s request once the order takes effect, the CLECs said. The CLECs and others have slammed compliance plans submitted by the Bells.